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MwiMzmmmmmmm N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 500 SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL Editorial, Monroe 353 rr w r auonaE, ngDroe ao lelepnoneS circulation, Monroe SS20 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago. 30 cents a Month. By Mall, United States and Canada, 53 00 a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1SH. at the postotflce at Chicago, III., tinder the Act of March 3. 1879. THOMPSON ET AL. I asked a friend of Mayor Thompson the other day why Big Bill was wasting his time fussing with that national com mittee row and state and national politics; and he told me that Bill had learned that Deneen and Roy "West and their gang were going to block Thompson in the legislature when ever he wanted anything done for Chicago, and that he came to the' conclusion that he might as well start now and fight it out with that gang to a finish. Possibly it's just as well; and if he is going to fight Deneen and (Vest, I hope hell knock them into tihe mid dle of next summer. We know where to place Deneen and West, and just what to expect from them. But there is some hope from Thompson. So far he hasn't been captured body, soul, and britches by Big Biz. And if Big Bill locks horns with the political bull of which the head is Sam Insull and the Consumers Co., believe me there will be SOME scrap. And that gang will know it has been in a fight before they make Big Bill lay down Fido. ANDY AND THE "TRUTH." That story that Andy Lawrence is going to start a weekly adless paper and call it "Truth" interests me. I suspect that the announcement inier- ests the other publishers. My memory is rather hazy, but I read somewhere, sometime, a statement to the effect that when trust newspaper publish- . ers fall out honest men get their dues. The wording may not be exact, but it was something like that Anyhow, Andy Lawrence was the Hearst publisher in Chicago for years. He has been the Hearst mem ber of the Chicago publishers' associ ation; and he has had a lot to do with the State street advertisers. And while Andy was publishing a news paper that depended upon the State street stores for a living, he must have got onto a lot of exclusive infor mation that he didn't dare publish for fear of disastrous consequences to his meal ticket But if Andy publishes an adless newspaper and actually begins print ing the truth there will certainly be such a shaking up of dry bones in this man's town as wflfmake folks sit up and take notice. It may be that Hearst started gome thing when he tied that can to Andy Cawrence. Anyhow, Andy, come on in; the ad less water's fine. SOMETHING DOING. By the way, gossiping about Andy Lawrence, Hearst and the Exaniiner, there are rumors around newspaperdom that a big shake-up in the Tribune is about to be pulled off. I don't belong, and am not on the inside, but there is some gossip to the effect that the Trib family row is about due for an eruption. Some of the editorials recently in dicate that somebody is real mad and doesn't care much of a darn what the writer says or whose toes he tramps on. He actually kicked the whole South, in the north end of the pants recent ly just about the time the big wind hit the gulf of Mexico. As John D., Sr., might properly have remarked to John D., Jr., It's hell to be rich,. 2&&iitmMAimmmiimAm